ill:, HIl'A 



ORCHIDA" 





N,,. 6. In ' Irchie the Btructun 

 and a pair <>t inner lateral Btaininodi 

 column, all th<- "!!• i I iminol 

 • 

 i ui, but tin- whole "t tin- inner ■ ■ 

 of Pterostyl nto the 



N". - 



the U8ual out< r Btam< □ and thi 

 form of a tumour on the lip. 

 . pari wai 

 Btructun is of many I tendrobes, an 



Thi ibacb rather 



appear to be founded on Bound principh b ; and it i- clear that he 

 the qu g it baa been put in English works. 



The botanist just mentioned, in an ingi 

 ./'■ poUmis Oraiid< ■ nc ttructurd, tt dt Orchideis in a 



rid , Leipsig, 4to, 1852,) pro- 

 t" take the position of the 

 antl er rather than the condil 

 of t!ie pollen a< the foundation of 

 ingemi tit. There 

 does not, however, appear t 

 any advantage in tl jested 



change, which i.s in reality 

 aami mi.'iit as the I 



with a different sequi i e. II 

 at pn • be premature to speak 

 dogmatically upon this very diffi- 

 cult subject : and therefore I have 

 avoided any alterations, and have 

 merely in the following list added 

 the names of sueh new genera ;ts 

 authors have proposed, without, 

 however, by any means pronounc- 

 ing upon their validity. 



In addition t" what has been 

 ting the 

 of Orchids, I maj Btate that, ac- 

 cording t<> Mr. Seemann, a bj ■ 

 of s,,), -alia yields the Vanilla called 

 < hiea in Panama, The fin I 

 Leptotes is also succulent and 

 fragrant ; while in Notylia the fruit 

 resemblee amall afiselto ben ■ 

 appearancei but are Bligbtly aro- 

 matic. 



■j i r. 



Fig. 124 b, Ioi lor ; ] Xv 



